Trivial Number of Defectors, Many Rejoined Insurgency

As NATO looks to spend more than $1 billion in bribe money set aside for trying to lure Taliban fighters away from the insurgency and into supporting the Karzai government, a new report reveals how much success they’ve had so far.

Bribing the Taliban’s followers into accepting the Karzai government seemed like a good idea for many, and certainly cheaper than the endless war. But the grudging acceptance that only money can buy appears fleeting, and in the end is just giving the Taliban followers a bit of money in their pockets.

You know, this shouldn't have taken a group of "analysts" to figure out that money couldn't buy allegiance. This sounds like another of the Bush era brainstorms. Obama should have purged ALL of them from the "advice" positions at the start. But that's just this old curmudgeon's opinion…